From pasture to bread Second Service Pastor Elmer López Guatemala, May 07th Year of Abundance
Many things have been told about the preaching, those who speak about the truth of God give all glory to our Lord Jesus Christ in every moment, even if some people don’t believe in what we preach, but we can’t stop talking about what we have seen and heard regarding the Word of God. However, there is people who lies and there will be people fooled because of those lies and then, they will follow all that fantasy. That’s why we need to be aware in every moment and have a holy life, no matter how difficult it is; we need to make an effort to keep our communion with our God to know His will so we can pleased him and be found worthy of escaping the horrors that are coming for this world. The Bible has a book that talks about the love of the Beloved (the Church) and her Beloved (Jesus); it describes many things that God represents for her, how deep she is in love with Him, but suddenly she starts describing how she was raised in her parents’ house, and describes herself as a brunette, like saying that there was a difficult situation with her relatives; then, the questions come: Can 1:7-8 “Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions? He: If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.” In this verse we want to remark the word “goats”, since other bible versions translate it “childish things”, in other words, what God is saying is that we need to change our attitude and grow up, move forward in our quest for the face of our God. Can 2:10-11 “My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.” There will be times in our life where suddenly it will be manifested what´s in our heart, with the purpose of cutting them from the root so we can run with the Lord in total freedom, that´s why this verse says that the winter is past, because we have reached that freedom in our spirit that God wishes to see in all of us. Can 4:1 “Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.” It´s interesting that the word “veil” can be translated “strengthened”. This shows us that after having a childish attitude, God sees the beauty in our heart through the maturity we show in submission by love. Can 6:2-3 “My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.” At this point at the beloved´s narration, she has moved from pasture to lilies; meaning that God will take to the lilies to pasture us. In bible dictionaries, the word “lilies” is translated as “trumpet”, showing that is how God will let us know it is time to leave this world; to reach this status, we need to get rid of any goat attitude in our soul.
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From pasture to bread Second Service Pastor Elmer López Guatemala, May 07th Year of Abundance
Can 6:3 “I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.” The Beloved changed her way to express her feelings, because now she doesn´t say that her beloved is hers; after growing up she understands that she needs to lay her will at her beloved´s feet. We need to do this same thing, die to ourselves to do our Father´s will, not by force but by love and with joy in our heart, knowing that we will finally die to our flesh, to anything that may bind us to this world. 2 S. 12:3 “but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.” In this verse we see a sheep that starts by eating pasture in a designed place for that, but when that sheep grows up and assimilates all that its Lord has thought, can move from eating pasture to eating bread in the table of its Lord but now as a daughter. Maybe we have been away from the Lord, but He is now calling us so we can seat at His table to eat the bread and drink the wine, that is the flesh and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ to have a new life.
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